2 FATHERS ACCUSED OF RAPE
A 54-YEAR-OLD man was accused of raping her 15-year-old daughter on Monday dawn in Mandaue City.
Police said the suspect tied the hands of her daughter before raping her inside the victim’s room.
The girl, the youngest of three siblings, managed to untie herself and ran to the police station to report the alleged abuse.
Senior Insp. Luis Alama, chief of the Canduman police station, said the suspect entered the girl’s room and tied her to the bed.
The girl tried to shout but the suspect covered her mouth, police said.
The victim told the police that her father was drunk during the incident.
The father was arrested after the incident was reported to the Canduman police station which was about 70 meters from the house.
The father told police that he was not aware of what he was doing because of drunkenness.
Around 6 a.m. also on Monday, a 15-year-old third year high school student was allegedly raped by her father in barangay Casili, Mandaue.
The girl said she was preparing breakfast in the dirty kitchen outside their house when her father called her.
The girl, second among six siblings, said she went to the living room when her father suddenly undressed her and molested her.
The girl said her father would usually molest her whenever he gets drunk.
The father was later arrested by police. He denied raping his daughter, saying he just accidentally tapped the shorts of his daughter.
He added that his daughter got irked when he told her to do the laundry./REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS
4 HURT IN LAPU ROAD MISHAP
FOUR persons were injured when the motorcycle they were riding was sideswiped by a motorcycle in barangay Pusok, Lapu-Lapu City.
Dino Etcobañez, 32, his two daughters aged eight and five and his 64-year-old mother Remedios were rushed to the hospital with bruises in the different part of their bodies.
Police said they victims were thrown off a motorcycle which was sideswiped by an armored van driven by Joseph Pendong, 29, a security guard of Armortech International Transporter.
Police said the armored van hit the motorcycle while trying to overtake on M.L. Quezon Highway past 3 p.m. Monday.
Pendong said they were in hurry at the time since they could be penalized if the money they were supposed to deliver would be delayed.
Pendong was detained at the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office pending the filing of charges against him.
The security agency agreed to shoulder the medical expenses of the victims, police said./CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA